Provided is a terminal which appropriately transmits and receives signals when operating in an unlicensed band. A terminal (200) is provided with: a mapping unit (207) for allocating a signal to a resource on the basis of control information indicating allocation of groups among a plurality of groups obtained by grouping a plurality of blocks into which a frequency band has been divided, and allocation of resources in the blocks; and a transmitting unit (209) for transmitting the signal.
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2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first resource assignment information indicates the starting interlace index and the number of contiguous interlace indices in a case where the first subcarrier spacing is smaller than or equal to a threshold.
3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first resource assignment information includes the bitmap indicating the set of one or more interlaces in a case where the second subcarrier spacing is larger than a threshold.
5. The communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein each of the contiguous resource block sets is sized 20 MHz.
7. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first resource assignment information indicates the starting interlace index and the number of contiguous interlace indices in a case where the first subcarrier spacing is smaller than or equal to a threshold.
8. The communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first resource assignment information includes the bitmap indicating the set of one or more interlaces in a case where the second subcarrier spacing is larger than a threshold.
10. The communication apparatus according to claim 9, wherein each of the contiguous resource block sets is sized 20 MHz.
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